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Stevenson’s ‘Travels in the Cevennes with a donkey has recently been published in paperback (Livres de Poche) with a new translation by Jean-Pierre Naugrette whose passionate introduction to the new translation entices the reader to rediscover this work. Well known connaisseur of Robert Louis Stevenson, Jean-Pierre Naugrette has translated several of Stevenson’s works: The Master […]

The theme of the 2024 international academic conference was “Stevenson intertextual”. This subject was addressed in a number of different ways. Martin White, President of the European network In the Footsteps of R.L. Stevenson, presented “Les écrivains voyageurs décodés”. These are three travel writers who all experienced Edinburgh in the 1870s, but in very different […]

The 11th Cultural Routes Training Academy was held in Brindisi, Italy, from 4 to 7 June 2024, on the theme of “European cooperation and sustainable development”. The meeting brought together representatives of the 47 European cultural routes, including Martin White, President of the European network In the Footsteps of Robert Louis Stevenson. In a marvelous […]

This year the Long John Silver Trust have introduced the Pirates and Prejudice route. The route  is based on the Trust’s Treasure Island Trail and prioritises Bristol’s literary and maritime connections in line with the Trust’s raison d’être. The route also focuses upon the Trust’s membership of the European Cultural Route “In the Footsteps of […]

The Stevenson’s Days this year will be held on 8th and 9th june 2024 at Longueil Annel and Chiry Ourscamps. Plenty of activities are planned including: a ‘Pirate concert’ starring the Orchestre d’Harmonie de Thourotte, Discover Stevenson’s works and the local heritage with cruises on the canal and Oise, workshops to discover your creativity with […]

Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of The Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, among many other perhaps less well-known but equally fascinating texts, was also an indefatigable great traveller. From the north of Scotland to the Pacific islands where he ends his life, in the territories he has crossed, […]

An article from the daily “La voix du Nord” announcing a recent event around the Hachette lock on the Sambre canal Sunday, April 28, 2019: Maroilles Three communes to animate the lock house of Hachette